Show AL ALIA T A DISTRICT ISONE IS ONE OF OLDEST OF OFt UTAH MINE CAMPS t Really Not of Town i but Includes Shafts Sh in n Both h B Big Bg f g and Little C Cottonwood Dod od Weekly Know now Utah of ot William Wil liam II Child Co Brokers ft f t f t tt t I MIXES ES OF OP 4 4 f 4 What mining districts are Included In- In 4 t 4 eluded In tho camp popularly popular 4 4 kno known n as Alta AHa 44 4 4 The Big Biff Cotton Cottonwood Iod and Little 4 t Cottonwood district 4 4 What Is tho t tho ho of or the oro 44 4 4 produced b by the tha In these those 44 4 4 districts 4 About 44 4 4 44 4 4 How are the o S of ot Park 44 4 4 City and Alta AHa divided 4 f By Dy an line f ff f- f 4 What are the principal metals 4 produced b by tho Uta mines 44 4 4 Sliver Silver load lead and gold 44 4 4 4 4 Where are the largest oro bodies bodles bodt bod- bod t les ies found 4 At tho the intersections of ot bedded 4 4 veins and fissures 44 4 4 When th first discovery was f mado made In the the Cottonwoods 44 4 4 of or oro 4 In 1564 IS 64 44 4 4 44 4 4 What Is the tho pest shaft abaft In the tAlta district 4 The Prince of ot Wales feet teet IQ UTAH UTAH- f t tI t tl I. I tl t t t t tA A It with Bingham A A the honor of ot cradling the mining Industry In Utah tho the Alta district haa has l been een prospected less than many other camps which can boast of ot no early history worth mentioning In view o of Its slight development the production of ot this district Is tho more remarkable Technically speaking speaking ing there Is no such mining district Alta ita is s tho the name of or ofa a posto five at T which tho the miners o of ot f the tho Big and Little Cottonwood districts districts districts dis dis- receive O thoU thoU- mall man It Is something some somo- thing of ot a n. task to tei write Cottonwood and still BUll more dl difficult to distinguish between the mineral veins of ot Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot Cot- and Cottonwood therefore there- there fore lore ore mine writers and mining men I have fallen into th tb e a habit of ot speaking o of the mining properties In both districts districts districts dis dis- as tho the mines o of Alta AUa Alta AHa Is In tho the mountains about eighteen miles southeast of oC Salt Lake Its nearest railroad point is Sand Sandy somo some fifteen miles from the mines The road from Crom Alta to Sandy Sand Is down the beautiful can canyon on of oC Little Cottonwood creek creek- Some o of Its mines can be reached more moro readily b by tho the way of the Big Cottonwood canyon canon wagon agon A road Qi p Perched among tho the highest peaks of or ortho tho the Wasatch range tho Alta mines are snowed In for tor a great part of ot the tho year CAr CArand and the melting of ot the snow produces an underground flow of ot water of ot vast dimensions These two Impediments to toI I mining are aro chiefly responsible for tor the delay In overhauling o tho the mineral resources re- re I sources of ot the camp and determining positively cly lively whether Its Us deposits are a as near surface developments have Indicated indicated Indi indi- twins of ot tho hugo oro ore bodies of the Park City mines Although nature has dealt harshly with Alta AUa In the tho matter of ot climate It Il has given gl compensation In tho form torm of ot otI I topography which affords tho the means of oV overcoming tho the two great handicaps I snow and water The elevation Is such that a comparatively small amount of capital Invested In tunneling either I from the Big Cottonwood or the tho Cottonwood canyon would afford an anI I o outlet tot unaffected b by snow and turn the troublesome water Into power sufficient I to oI operate crato the machinery of ot a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred mines When It Is remembered that aI approximately approximately proxImately worth o of ore was removed from a few tew mines be before foro they reached tho ho permanent water level and that the tho veins when they ther disappeared In tho the liquid element were an as full tull of ore Ole as 33 over It occurs to an anyone yo no that enormous fortunes are arc reserved reserved reserved-n In soak as It were were for for the tunnel diggers of or tho future This Is the tho list of or tho the ancient and modern producers of ot the tho Alta AHa district as handed down to us by the chronicler chroniclers chroniclers chroni chroni- cler s of ot the mines Flagstaff Emma 6 Vallejo and North Star Str Prince of oC Wales ales Gri Grf l OIa 2000 South Star Columbus Con Consolidated and Resolution City Rocks Albion 2 2 Toledo Savage and Montezuma 95 Nabob Oxford and Geneva Gene r fj- fj 22 I Peruvian Other mines Juines Total |